The travel advice in City Secrets London comes directly from the personal recommendations of those who know the city most intimately: writers, critics, artists, and producers.
Allow the poet laureate to transport you back to the city's romantic golden age, and discover where its futuristic dreams began and ended. Through the eyes of contemporary architects and historians encounter the vaulted mysteries of neglected churches and the sudden peace of hidden gardens, the ghosts of theatres past and the whitewashed interiors of the vibrant Britart present. Find out where Madonna goes for her Bloody Marys and where the Queen buys her claret; the Old Masters to which the city's iconoclastic artists return for inspiration, and the haunts of its journalists after the pubs close; the unmissable locations of its film-makers and the favourite street theatre of its playwrights...
With detailed maps and walking tours, 'City Secrets' reveals to you an authentic London of the imagination, casting fresh light on familiar sights and uncovering, through anecdote and personal insight, a wealth of unknown gems.
